“They’re going to be looking at it at the moment at Arsenal and saying ‘there’s a bit of disarray there, do you know what, I am going to hold off for six months and see if we get any other offers or see whether the club stabilises and then we can make that decision’.

“I think Arsenal are going to find it very, very difficult in the last couple of days to bring in what I’d class as a major signing until the stability of the football club has been looked at.”